Lot 74: MADDOX, WILLES.

Est: £800 GBP - £1,200 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomOctober 29, 2009

Item Overview

Description

VIEWS OF LANSDOWN TOWER BATH. THE FAVOURITE EDIFICE OF THE LATE WILLIAM BECKFORD. .BATH: EDMUND ENGLISH JR AND LONDON: THOMAS MCLEAN, 1844.
first edition, folio (618 x 444mm.), chromolithographed title-page, lithographed dedication leaf, list of subscribers, tinted lithographed illustrations in text, 13 chromolithographed plates (on 12 sheets, 2 on one sheet), original morocco-backed cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover, many leaves detached and a few frayed at edges, occasional spotting, binding slightly rubbed

Artist or Maker

Willes Maddox

Literature

Abbey, Scenery 420

Notes

Auction Details

Books and Manuscripts from the English Library of Archibald, 5th Earl of Rosebery and Midlothian, K.G., K.T.

Sotheby's

October 29, 2009, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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